I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Have the Texas oil companies backing Proposition 23 surrendered in the fundraising battle over the ballot measure that would suspend California’s global warming law? Since Thursday, the No on 23 forces have raised more than $7.3 million as the Silicon Valley-Hollywood-environmental-industrial complex revved up for [...]
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James Cameron, Gordon Moore take on California’s Prop 23
Posted in climate change, global warming, Proposition 23, Uncategorized on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not just a photo(voltaic) op: Maldives leader goes solar
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, global warming, green policy, renewable energy, solar energy, Sungevity, tagged Maldives, President Mohamed Nasheed on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed (on right in above photo), didn’t just agree to have solar panels installed on the presidential mansion; he helped put them in. Nasheed scrambled up to the roof this week, screwdriver in hand, and joined the crew from [...]
Enviros step up Prop 23 effort, oil industry pleas for money
Posted in alternative energy, global warming, green policy, Proposition 23, renewable energy, tagged Proposition 23 on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The campaign against Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state’s global warming law, took in more than a half million dollars in contributions this week. Meanwhile, fundraising by the oil companies backing the measure was so lackluster it prompted a plea [...]
Anti-Prop 23 forces tap big donors in California climate fight
Posted in global warming, green policy, green tech, Proposition 23, tagged Proposition 23 on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. With the campaign season revving up, even more money is starting to flow into the campaign to defeat Proposition 23. Prop 23 is the California ballot initiative that would suspend the state’s landmark climate change law. Its opponents had been relying mostly [...]
Texas oil vs. California clean tech: The battle over Prop 23
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, Environmental Defense Fund, global warming, green policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Proposition 23, renewable energy, Sierra Club, tagged AB32, California, EDF, global warming, NRDC, Proposition 23, Sierra Club on August 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
photo: NRDC I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The climate war has shifted to California. Proposition 23, an initiative that would suspend Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the state’s landmark global warming law, provides the first ballot box test for climate change legislation — and for the prospects of reviving a [...]
Greening the Navy by building the Priuses of the air and sea
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, environment, global warming, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, tagged biofuels, Marine Corps, Ray Mabus, renewable energy, U.S. Navy on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
photo: U.S. Navy In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write about Navy Secretary Ray Mabus’ plans to green the Navy and Marine Corps and help build a market for new technologies: Want to stimulate demand for renewable energy? Send in the Marines. That was Navy Secretary Ray Mabus’s message on Monday when he [...]
Silicon Valley: Prop 23 will kill off the Googles of green tech
Posted in alternative energy, environment, global warming, Google, green financing, green policy, green tech, tagged Bill Weihl, Google, Mary Nichols, Proposition 23, Vinod Khosla on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: eSolar I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. As the traditional Labor Day kickoff to the fall election campaign approaches, the battle is intensifying over Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative that would effectively repeal the state’s landmark climate change law. And thus the title of a gathering Tuesday at Google’s [...]
California farmers want to grow electrons to save water
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, global warming, green policy, green tech, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E, renewable energy, Sierra Club, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, solar energy, solar power plants, Westlands Solar Park, Westlands Water District on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In a followup to my story in Wednesday’s New York Times about recycling farmland and toxic waste sites for renewable energy projects, I take a deeper dive into why some farmers in the California’s San Joaquin Valley want to stop raising crops and start growing electrons: In an article in The New [...]
New Sierra Club leader plans next front in the climate war
Posted in climate change, endangered species, environment, global warming, green policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, tagged climate change, endangered species, global warming, Michael Brune, Sierra Club on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Lori Eanes. In a piece I wrote for Yale Environment 360, I interview the new executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, about what’s next for the green movement in the wake of the defeat of federal climate change legislation: In March, Michael Brune took over as executive director of the Sierra Club, [...]
Recycling farmland, toxic waste sites for solar energy
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, First Solar, global warming, green policy, green tech, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, SunPower, the green economy, tagged First Solar, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E, Sierra Club, solar energy, solar power plants, SunPower, water, Westlands Solar Park, Westlands Water District, Westside Holdings on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In Wednesday’s New York Times, I write about a growing movement to repurpose farmland and toxic waste sites for big renewable energy projects: LEMOORE, Calif. — Thousands of acres of farmland here in the San Joaquin Valley have been removed from agricultural production, largely because the once fertile land is contaminated by [...]
